Introduction

The Restart Framework exists to cater for a deficiency within SSIS, that being the poor support for restartability. Let's define what I mean by restartability:

A SSIS execution that fails should, when re-executed, have the ability to start from the previous point of failure.

SSIS provides a feature called checkpoint files that are intended to help in this scenario but I am of the opinion that checkpoint files are an inadequate solution to the problem, I explain why in my blog post
Why I don't use SSIS checkpoint files.
The Restart Framework was designed to overcome the shortcomings of checkpoint files. Note that the Restart Framework only supports SSIS 2012 at the time of writing.

Terminology

Let's define some important terms that you will need to become familiar with if you are going to use the Restart Framework.

ETLJob

An ETLJob is the definition of some work that an end-to-end ETL process needs to perform. An ETLJob would typically incorporate many SSIS packages. Each ETLJob has a name (termed ETLJobName) which can be any value you want, some example ETLJobNames might include:

Nightly Data Warehouse Load

Monthly Reconciliation

All backups

ETLJobStage

ETLJobHistory

blah blah blah
Crucially, when a previously-failed ETLJob is restarted it retains the same ETLJobHistoryId, compare this to SSIS' own execution_id which will be different whenever an ETLJob is restarted.
The ETLJobHstoryId can be particularly useful when used for lineage purposes in a data warehouse loading routine. Every inserted or updated record can have the ETLJobHistoryId stored against it which is useful for providing ...